...God Bless: Usual Suspects’ appeal for fewer televised anthems drew a lot of comment last week. “When would be an appropriate time to show the anthem?” asked a few readers. Allow us to present Monday night at Yankee Stadium. In the middle of the seventh, Red Sox manager Terry Francona hustled out of the dugout to argue a call with umpire Angel Campos. Just as Francona got a good spray going in Campos’ face, the PA system broke out God Bless America.

Both Francona and Campos suddenly snapped to attention, stifling the debate. By the time the last chord of GBA echoed through Yankee Stadium, Francona had lost much of his vitriol. He retreated to the dugout. End of debate. Talk about sweet music. ...

Later, Dontrelle. Thanks a bunch for those two wins. If Dombrowski hadn't given out some of the worst deals ever to Willis, Robertson, and Bonderman then maybe the Tigers could have some real starting pitching depth right now after Verlander. Or someone, anyone that could hit in the bottom third of the order. Inge, Laird and Everett are three free outs and the Tigers defense sucks anyways so that hasn't even made up for it whatsoever.

I hope Dombrowski learned his lession about giving blank checks to garbage starting pitchers. The Tigers should be winning the division every season with their payroll and they are hamstrung by a bunch of scrubs who now aren't even on the team anymore.

Jim Joyce is gonna be hung in effigy after that one. You'd wish they could overturn that, but even if they did Galarraga and the team don't get their on field celebration. But it's great to see Galarraga looking like his old self again.

That was one of the worst calls I've ever seen in the 16 years I've been watching professional baseball. Holyf****** s***. There's no way it'll be overturned, but hopefully this means the end of Joyce's career.

If I was Leyland, it would have taken the whole team to hold me back from punching that ******* in the face.

"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff." -- The Doctor

if he was obviously safe, but the ump called him out to seal a perfect game, the losing team would be a little angry, but thats it. The opposite happened here and it is infinitely worse. This kid pitched a hell of a game and was gunna be the first perfect game in tigers history, but that dips*** in blue will need the secret service to get him out of detroit tonight.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. - General George S. Patton